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: vast
call spirits from the vasty deep—William Shakespeare
Synonyms
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- galactic
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
Examples of vasty in a Sentence
the days when intrepid explorers sailed the vasty deep in small vessels
Recent Examples on the Web
But in room after room, the vasty majority of the objects were mute and meaningless, and only those that somehow referenced other periods of crisis spoke with clarity.
—Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
The Globe reports that Breggin spent most of Monday morning painting a vasty different picture of Carter than the one presented by prosecutors last week.
—Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2017
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Word History
Etymology
First Known Use
1596, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near vasty
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“Vasty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vasty. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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